Man Utd’s Marc Skinner boss slams ticketing for FA Cup final

Manchester United supervisor Marc Skinner has criticised the English Football Association (FA) for solely allocating 7,500 tickets for his facet’s girls’s FA Cup final conflict with Chelsea at Wembley on May 14.

United booked their place into May’s final with a 3-2 win over Brighton whereas Chelsea will participate of their third consecutive final following a 1-0 win towards Aston Villa.

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The final is ready to interrupt the home attendance report after final 12 months’s final between Chelsea and Manchester City was performed in entrance of 49,094 followers however Skinner hit out on the FA for their ticketing allocation for the final.

“I don’t know how many it is in the men’s game, but to give clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United 8,000 tickets to sell, it’s just crazy in my opinion,” Skinner informed a information convention on Tuesday.

“I don’t know how it works in all honesty, I haven’t really looked into it but to give two massive clubs 8,000 tickets is, as I say, crazy — that is as simple as I can put it.”

Last season’s males’s FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool noticed each groups allotted 30,500 tickets every.

An FA spokesperson informed ESPN in a press release: “The Vitality Women’s FA Cup Final is the showpiece event of the women’s domestic season, and to date we have issued over 65,000 tickets. Finalists Chelsea and Manchester United have each been issued with an additional 7,500 tickets for their fans.

“This is to assist meet the probably demand for every membership and is nearly double the quantity of tickets that the finalists acquired final 12 months.

“We look forward to hosting another memorable Final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 14 May, and we are anticipating a new record attendance for the match.”

Information from Reuters was included on this report.